EventHorizon

EventHorizon

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Reply to The GUI Olympics: One month... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Personally, I think there will be an exponential growth in the number of entries as we approach the deadline(s)... Some people (such as myself) will be doing only one skin but would like to make it the best it can possibly be, and will take all of the alloted time to accomplish that goal.

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Reply to Editiorial: Are skinners abandoning originality in exchange for popularity? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Way back when skinning was 'young' and Wincustomize hadn't even been created, skinning was about playing around and showing your friends what you could come up with. There we no 'huge' download numbers and it really was quite a small world... NOW, we have over ONE MILLION regestered ppl on this site alone... Skinning has become about downloads, not about having fun and coming up with the most original design. As someone pointed out earlier, skinning has also become more time co

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Reply to Web site in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ditto what china said about the animations... And also, fix your spelling...Nothing gives a worse impression than a site with all the "the"s spelled 'teh' etc... Some of the linkies are broken too...might want to fix those... But overall, not a bad job at all. [Message Edited]

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Reply to How do you do Glassy things :) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

...I hope thats what you were looking for... Even though that tut is for PS7, it should work for PS6 as well... Also check this thread: https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?BID=WCS&id=165295#229997 [Message Edited]

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Reply to How do you do Glassy things :) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

http://alanhettinger.com/tutorials/specular/specular.pdf There are many ways to do glassy buttons... or glassy globes or whatever you want to call them...The trick is getting the white 'reflection patch' to correspond accurately with the gradient of color below it. The apparent shape of the glass object comes directly from the shape and size of the reflection patch. http://skins4.wincustomize.com/JairoBoudewyn/dock/trillian_5_jpg_big.jpg ^Example^ <br

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Reply to Poll! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Photoshop 7 all the way... Used to use Terragen a little, not so much anymore. Currently teaching myself Flash for web design etc.

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Reply to Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

...Ive read essays/articles recently that suggest that 'Global Warming' may be a 'myth'... According to them, 'ice ages' and vice-versa are caused not so much by 'greenhouse gasses' but rather by Sunspot activity, or lack therof. As far as 'the end is near'... Anyone remember the thread a while back about 'John Titor'? (Guy who supposedly came from the future to 'warn' us about 'disasterous events'...then dissappeared without a trace) https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.a

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